ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

When I started my career as an engineer, I didn’t set my sights on becoming a product manager. Flash forward fifteen years later, and I’m the Director of Product Management at HG Insights. So, what qualities does it take to become a product manager ? My Journey Transitioning from Engineering to Product Management.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. Marty Cagan is a well-known figure in the product management and technology industry. Who is Marty Cagan?

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Split

MARCH 20, 2024

Understanding precisely how to improve release management is key for more efficient software development. This spans planning, development, testing, approval, deployment, release, and post-implementation support. Effective release management is pivotal for agile software development.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Without discovery practices as part of the sprint, the product is destined to fail. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. After delivery, we prayed to the gods that the final product would work as designed. To understand users and measure results you need discovery techniques.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Agile practices, like Scrum and Kanban, initially developed for software development, are now being embraced across all departments and functional areas including marketing, finance, and human resources. Retrospectives, with data-driven feedback loops, are critical at every level. Training alone is insufficient.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As a leading product design company with over 10 years of field experience, we share our list of top product design companies to look at in 2021. It contains everything you need to know to evaluate, compare, and pick the most suitable product design partner for your business. What you can do to improve your product’s design.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Becoming a product lead is a challenging mission, but it is a rewarding and well-recognized profession. If you want to become a product lead but have no experience, it is still not difficult to get there. In general, they play a major lead role equivalent to a Director or VP of Product.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In modern software development, product designers tend to be embedded on a cross-functional squad or scrum team. That team’s collective work is often represented, at a high level, as features on the product roadmap. The work of a product designer, however, is distinct from their developer counterparts.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 27, 2023

Introduction In today's fast-paced and dynamic business environment, organizations are increasingly turning to agile methodologies to enhance their software development and project management processes. Agile methodologies are a set of principles and practices that prioritize flexibility, collaboration, and iterative development.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Conducting User Research”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. View the live stream….

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

DevOps is the practice of software development (Dev) engineers and of IT operations (Ops) working together during a product’s entire lifecycle, from design through development to production support, in order to shorten the total lead time (from concept to cash) and to provide predictable delivery of high-quality products.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Even as product managers (PMs) have grown in popularity over the past decade, the same issue looms across the industry: it’s hard to define the aforementioned value up-front when asked for. Product managers are important and their growth only rises According to Zippia, there are over 41k PMs, just in the US alone.

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Split

MAY 15, 2024

While the terms “deploy” and “release” may seem similar, they represent different processes that play crucial roles in the software development lifecycle. Understanding their nuances is essential for streamlining operations and delivering high-quality software to end-users.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

Are you aiming to become a product analyst? A product analyst needs to be able to utilize data strategically, but their job description doesn’t depend on data science degrees anymore. This change has been primarily driven by increased access to analytics tools like Userpilot that help businesses achieve product growth.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Looking to become a technical product manager? According to Salary , the average technical product manager in the United States earns as much as $123,609 a year. Hence, a technical product manager is one of the most rewarding careers. That said, there is no clear and straight path to becoming a technical product manager.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. Many teams have tried adopting Scrum for developing hardware products, not always successfully. Dorian has a deep background in product development, starting in engineering and then moving to business leadership roles.?

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 13, 2020

It was on this day in 1931 that the field of product management was born – its birth marked by an internal memorandum written by Neil H. McElroy proposed how P&G brands could be managed more effectively by creating a new management role for people who would be accountable for particular products, rather than business functions.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Want to become an AI product manager? This guide shows you how to prepare for a career in AI product management. Today, more and more businesses are looking for product managers specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. That said, landing a job as an AI product manager is not easy.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

When do you need it and how does it help product managers build better products? Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. Ready to dive in? Let’s get to it!

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Working with developers can be intimidating. Continue reading on Product Coalition ». But follow this five step process and you’ll be fine.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results. That means planning some nuanced mentoring.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In modern software development, product designers tend to be embedded on a cross-functional squad or scrum team. That team’s collective work is often represented, at a high level, as features on the product roadmap. The work of a product designer, however, is distinct from their developer counterparts.

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bpma ProductHub

JUNE 12, 2017

A Boston Women in Product Event Recap. By Garmia Painuly – No matter what the product, our goal as product managers is to deliver value to customers. How do we quantify and measure the value, and incorporate the findings into our product plans and roadmaps? The RAT is not a product.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

Nietzsche and the career plan My old boss Jim Barksdale was fond of saying, “We take care of the people, the products, and the profits?—?in Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers.

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Balsamiq

JULY 13, 2018

We recently began doing 1-on-1 video interviews as part of a user research initiative, which we described in a post a few months back called User Research: How to Start Talking to Your Users. So for this month's case study, I spent a little more time talking to Raguram Venkatesan , a customer and Product Manager in Florida.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In modern software development, product designers tend to be embedded on a cross-functional squad or scrum team. That team’s collective work is often represented, at a high level, as features on the product roadmap. The work of a product designer, however, is distinct from their developer counterparts.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. All of them are accountable for a squad (about five developers and one user experience professional).

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wondering what the best product conferences of 2021 are? We’ve collected the best events for product folks that you can attend online or in-person. February Product Conferences. Product World. Product Marketing Rendezvous. Source: Product Marketing Alliance. Table of contents. Source: Productworld.co.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. What we’ve noticed instead in the startup world, is a lot of people become product managers by default rather than design. What Is Product Management Consulting?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Consider Your Approach to Feedback. Saying No is an important part of the product manager’s role. At every level of our careers, we are faced with unsolicited, opinionated and sometimes outlandish product feedback from our internal teams. Product “No” Outcomes. Dismissive of Feedback. Lack of collaboration.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

For many product teams , continuous discovery is a brand-new way of working. To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ).

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

As a result, like many others I too have started to think of myself as more of a “product person” these days?—? One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. A topic of hot debate in the agile and product circles but with very few answers.

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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

DevOps is a software development methodology that can help legacy businesses streamline their digital transformation efforts. DevOps is a combination of culture, tools, and processes that emphasize collaboration and communication between software development and IT operations teams.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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Balsamiq

JULY 13, 2018

We recently began doing 1-on-1 video interviews as part of a user research initiative, which we described in a post a few months back called User Research: How to Start Talking to Your Users. So for this month's case study, I spent a little more time talking to Raguram Venkatesan , a customer and Product Manager in Florida.

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